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By Nelson Boyd.
Special Correspondence of Xha Journal.
ONDON, May 3.Painting in the
tdark is the latest thing in art.
H. Keyworth Raine, who has
be en dubbed the "cellar artist," is cre
ating a sensation in London art circles.
is not a mere faddist. There is de
cided method in what his fellow artists
are pleased to term his madness. While
many wielders of the brush are finding
the utmost difficulty in making a# liv
ing, even in the strongest daylight,
iKeyworth Raine is getting rich a
dingy cellar opposite St. George
church, Hanover square.
The cellar artist'' has attracted the
attention of some of the wealthiest and
most distinguished people in England.
less a personage than Lord Iveagh,
tho king's great chum, has come out as
Raine's bold champion and practical
patron. has more orders than he
can execnto. and titled people are invit
ing him to their country seats, and giv
ing him commissions galore. Already
thru tho influence of Lord Iveagh he
|has painted the portraits of the Earl of
Buehan, Lady Evelyn Guinness, .Sir
Nevil le Chamberlain, K.C.B., Sir John
'Arnott and hosts of others.
His Studio We ll Hidden,
The lightless artist does not seem to
court publicity..
igi lblicity is not even in the
London directory. After some difficul
ty, his studio was found by the
Journal correspondent. The prop
er" address is 13A George street, Han
over square, but if you apply at the im
posing building which this number rep
resents, you will even then have some
difficulty in locating jour man. It is
only when you go around by the side of
the building, that you notice a modest
little sign on a dingy-looking railing.
You read the words "Cellar Studio."
Descending a steep flight of very nar
row and dingy steps, you come into a
still narrower and more dingv passage,
which leads into an even dingier be
yond. This beyond is involved in a
somber darkness that would have done
credit to the tenth plague of .Egypt.
Out of the'depths of the blackness, a
Voice calls you:
"Will you step this way into the
studio.''
You don't know which way "this
way" is, but trusting to Providence
and obeying the voice, you enter a door
and have the impression of being in a
By Mrs. A. C. Ellison.
N this flood-time of children's liter
ature, it is a somewhat audacious
undertaking to put down in black
:i.ud white, and then sign one's name to
Jt, :i list of books that every child should
know. It means threading one's way
thru a labyrinth of printed stuff, a
large amount of which lends itself
Chiefly to the gentle art of skipping,
and selecting only that which
continues to "foist itself into fame
year after year by
childien themselves./'
and favor
"by* the
Perhaps there will, always be in evi
dence more or less of this would-be
literature, with its stilted and wooden
creations to encumber the earth, but
Jthere will still stand out here and there
certain wayside inns where all children
love to linger while trailing their clouds
of glory thru the swiftly moving years.
As I Once Was.
A few generations ago there was no
distinctive literature for boys and girls,
the "masterpiece only" theory was in
force by virtue of necessity, and the
days wh en Charles Lamb's sister was
"tumbled into a spacious closet qf
good old English books to browse at
will upon that fair and wholesome
{pasturage,'' i th days of the few
gfctestlibrarieswaandnonle
ood the few and the
were meant to survive, but in
this generation when every child looms
jinto the importance of an individual,
jit is desired not only that the fittest
may survive, but that the many may be
made fit. To this end, various and
learnest have been the efforts to bring
.within the range of every child "this
fair and wholesome pasturage." That
Ihe is entitled to a choice his reading
is both wise and just, but the responsi
bility of reflecting into that choice
jWhat is fair and wholesome, presup
poses either a good library or a dis
criminating knowledge of what consti
tutes literature, and lacking both of
these a little study of child nature, and
(a bit of common sense are not bad sub
stitutes to have in the family.
Famous Mother Goose.
This takes us back to the starting
point, for if left to himself a child will
go
with unerring instinct to Mother
foose. I have been told that there
are children who have never learned to
I love these rhymes, but it is onl-o- fair
to regret their delinquencies later in
normal or else to hope they will learn
to regret their dehnqumcies later in
life. Just wherein lies the wonderful
vitality of Mother Goose still remains
to be settled just why the old woman
with her broom, little Miss Muffit, the
dish running away with the spoon, and
all the rest of it. are so facinatmg and
dramatic, is still one of the hidden
secrets of childhood. et after all
has been said, I think it harks back to
their jingle^a nd to a certain delicious
absence of sense and reason. But
whatever the source of their popularity
children have continued to cling to
them with a largeness of love ever
since the Newberys published them in
1765. This early edition, called
Melodies of Mother Goose, is out of
print, but there has recently been re
printed in fac-simile the Munroe &
Francis edition with an introduction by
Edward Everett Hale, which includes
all but three of the earlier rhymes.-
|JV Goody Two Shoes. a
With the publication of the Melodies
was also sent out at the same time
Goldsmith's Goody Two Shoes, and
these two books will outlive all the
"good little books with neat cuts,"
that have been published since. The
edition of Goody Two SJioes illustrated
by Walter Crane is exceedingly at
tractive and will follow in the trail of
Mother Goose.
It isn't in the least original to say
that children are attracted by colors
RUd pictures, because everyone who has
bserved them knows it to be true and
?li?^!l?i_i!!!!!^^
8 Editorial Section.
SOM E BOOK S EVER
CHIL SHOUL KNO W
A List and Description of Books That Will Fill Childhood
with Joy and Give Pleasant Memories for Old Age
First of a Series of Three Articles.
i KEYWORTH RAINE. 1
The Artist Who Paints In the Dark, with One of His Paintings, an tin commonly
Good Piece of Work Which He Finished In Less Than Five Hours.
very narrow room. The only visible
object this room is a chair standing
on a sort of pedestal, and vaguely
lighted by a streak of light, carefully
shrouded off by a strip of yellowish
brown paper. The voice proceeds to
assure you that the sitters occupy the
chair on* the pedestal, and that the
light entering the window is all the
illumination he requires for his por
traits.
to this time, you have not had an
opportunity to see the cellar artist him-
the picture book enters seriously into
the child's first years, as does the move
ment of life later on. The importance
of beautiful color and design as factors
in education has long been recognized,
there only remains the discrimination'
and selection.
Gifts of Illustration.
This generation has showered* many
rich gifts of illustration and fancy
upon the children's books, and the ugly
little dummies that display themselves
in the Chatterbox and kindred litera
ture, have been replaced by the de
lightful sketches as shown in the Cal
dicott picture books, in "All the.World
Over'' an rl "Bag Taa anA Bo To^l and Tail
Edith Farmeloe in "There Was an Old
Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" illus
trated in color by K. J. Henall, and
"Cock-A-Doodle-Do" by Cecil Aldin
"Children of Our Town," illustrated
by E. Mars and M. H. Squire "Child
hood" by Katherin Pyle, illustrated by
Sarah Stillwell.
The Kate Greenaway books are al
ways favorites, as also Walter Crane's
illustrations, which are beautiful in
color and design. Here are a few of
the latter:
This Little Pig Went to
Market," Mother Hubbard,''
"Beauty and the Beast," "Eed Eiding
Hood," and his "Flora's Feast." A
Masque of Flowers." a gem of beauty
Peter Newell's "Topsys and Turveys"
and "Pictures and Ehymes," the latter
illustrated in black and white with a
preface by /ohn Kendrick Bangs, are
full of delicious humor,1
while "Joan of
Arc" by G. M. Boutel de Monvel is so
beautiful that a child is fortunate to
have grown up with it. One of ,the
modem favorites is a little book called
"Nanny,'"illustrated in color by T. 13.
Butler, which is full of quaint and
laughable rhymes. The old-fashioned
one called "Slovenly Peter" by H.
Hoffman ig another favorite, altho I
could never discover why, unless it is
due to subconscious fellow-feeling with
Peter's delinquences.
Beatrice Potter's Books.
Beatrice Potter is another modern
illustrator and her A Tale of
Peter Eabbit," "The Tale of Squirrel
Nutkin," and "The Tailor of Glouces
ter" make attractive and holdable
books, and the little brothers there are
drawn with life and sympathy. The
picture book is the story without words,
the story with the preaching left out.
Association with pictures like these will
unconsciously develop the child's taste
for harmonious lines and color, and
open up later the great book of nature,
not that false aspec*t that depicts tad
poles as ruminating on their trans
morphosej, or caterpillars reasoning on
their future existences, or the inane
conversations indulged in by mama
this and papa that, but nature with its
transcendent color scheme, its silent
voices, its obedience to law, tracing
with its gracious finger the handiwork
of God.
The Primer's Place.
uBallads
4
Allied to the picture books shouldlbe
the primer, but unfortunately, I think
the artistic is too often sacrificed to
the desire 'to talk, which after all might
as well be illustrated by something
beautiful as mediocre.'^V-The "Arnold
Primer," the "Art literature Stories"
and "Folk-Lore Stories" by E., O.
Grover fill the need fairly well, but to
my mind there is an "opportunity for a
beautiful and practical art primer.
There are few books of a miscellaneous
nature that lend a charm to every day
in a child's first years. One of these
is "Folk-Lo fe Stories and Proverbs"
E S. Wiltse, which is a rare adap
tion of old legends, and its illustrations
tell the story even better than the
words. J. H. Haaren is another ac
ceptable compiler, his "Ehymes and
Fables" and
and Tales" are
sympathetic, and have nothing of that
"writing down" character that is an
abomination and always to 1)6 avoided
'fo&!i9'&-B<!2s
self and have to gather your impres
sions from his voice, which conveys a
vague notion that its owner is slightly
deaf, for he speaks in the measured
monotone of one listening to his own
words, and measuring their sound.
Charles Lamb mourned the days before
the invention of artificial light, say
ing how wretchedly a ioke must have
passed off when you had to feel your
neighbor's face to learn whether he
were smiling or not and perhaps the
lack of conversation while sitters are
in selecting any adaptations from liter
ature.
Dear to the Child Heart.
Andrew Lang's "Nursery
Verse for Children.
The rhythm of verse always meets
with quick response from a child. It is
as if he were born with a natural im
petus toward beauty and harmony, and
all musical rythm is hut an echo .front
his recent heaven world. The" child
who can listen to the cadence of a
mother's voice, chanting strains from
those who have -caught a glimpse of the
"light That never was on sea nor land,"
is swayed by its beauty long before
the meaning is revealed. To this end
all musical verse can be utilized, Ten
nyson, Longfellow, Browning, etc.
There are some excellent compilations
of verse from which selections can be
made. Kate D. Shute's "Land of
Song," M. W. Morrison's "Songs and
Ehymes for th e. Little Ones," "The
Posy Bing," and "Gold en Numbers"
compiled by K. D. Wiggin and Nora
Smith are excellent. Of course a child
should hear the songs from Eugene
Field's "Lullaby Land" and "Love
Songs of Childhood." 'should
never be defrauded of "The Calico
Mare," "Saddled and Bridled for
Bumpfield nor from "Pittypat and
Tippytoe." There is a beautiful edi
tion of his poems of childhood illus
trated in color by Maxfleld Parrish,
while from the true friend of every
child has come the "Child's Garden
of Verses," come to leave a smile and
a tender memory.
This ay not be as long a list as the
modern child demands, but it wiri fill
his early life with joy, and lead to the
door which opens into that fair and
wholesome pasturage which is the birth
right of eyerybne who can make it his
own. It is not necessary to be buried
alive in books to learn to love them.
Give the child a few choice ones
that will enrich his life, and teach him
to love them and kn ow them, and-if in
later years the poet or the storymaker
should learn to speak thru him, he may
trace his themes back to that first un
alloyed joy in the flights of Mother
Oroose.
ITHE'DARKiTHE
OF THE "CELEARI^RTISIRsfTH
,1 K^Wafr
-|he
aTtistsf
Ehyme
"Book," Emile Poulsson's "Child'
Stories and Ehymes," and the "Nurs
ery Stories and Ehymes," Edward
Lear's "Nonsense Books," and Kath
erin Pyle's "As the Goose Flies" are
all dear to the child's heart, and tho
latter are especially attractive in illus
tration. Maud Lyndsay's "Mother
StoiieB" are good adaptations .and can
be* read aloud to little ones. Esop's
Fables walk very naturally into these
first days so filled with delightful
ignorance of authorships and classics,
and all such embaig:assiiig,jfespon,sibili
ties There is an edition of Esop's Fables with an introduction by T,
Cary, and illustrated m- color by J. M.
Conde, and also "Baby% Oym Esop'*1
by Walter Crane that are suitable,, for a
first introduction to these fables, and
the illustrations very much enhance the
"story hour."
RECRUITS
IN FLOOD OF ALIENS
Expert S&ys Immigratibn Re
inforces,the Ranks of the
Lawbreakers.
New York, May 12Th distribu
tion of the thousands of /immigrants
that are coming to this country was
discussed at the meeting of the'Amer
ican Social Science association, in the
United Chanties building, Madison
avenue and Twenty-second- street. John
Graham Brooks presided.
William Williams, former immigra
tion commissioner, addressed the meet
ing on "The Sifting of. the' Immi
grants." said that ma ny unde
sirable immigrants were getting into
the country by hook or by crook, and
that the only remedy was in the 'es-
tablishment of a secret-service bureau
to be attached to the immigscation
service. said the illiteracy test was
not effective and that new laws should
be framed to cover the admission^ of
immigrants.
Prescott F. Hall of Boston, author of
"Immigration and Its Effect Up on the
^^s^f^ssf^p'*^:
Keyworth Raine Claims to Have Discovered the Secret of Titian and Rembrandt-'i-Titled People Indorse His WorkCommissions Pouring in
for His Dark-Painted PicturesHis Methods Puzzle the Experts--An Interview in the Dark.
havwig their portraits painted has put
he cellar artist'at a disadvantage, so
HT asi this voice is concerned. But as
his voice is afl-you have to go by at
such an interview, it naturally assunles
a greater importance than it .would
under ordinary circupistanejes.
I ha,ve beeif closely studying this
methOQ of painting for mor than, seven
yea^s," ^aid Keyworth Raine,. *'an
have come to the conclusion th at .Vel
asquez, Renibrandt and other great, art
ists of their school worked somewhat
after my system. I do not claim that
they also worked absolutely., in the dark
as, I *do, but I dp maiatawr'that they
studied, jjght values jusf as
Society Wemen$14ke Jt,
1 ''"In 'fact.^i^is ^ust "the
f- *s t- it
THE JOUR
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1881.
t&&h^iO#llw&ter-s n*Wvera
Is ahead of a%f|ji&a $
^Sjt Paul or#tinneapoll8, h#s
ed the inquw" as to "wneth0
We cannot have, some^ingr better.
Paul Is in hopes of induelng one of her
capitalists to erect a hew theater, b\jt
if* the Messrs. Herricl^. Minneapol|&
would carry out the oft-talked of plali
of cutting the auditorium of'the Acad*
emy down^ta the sec$t story, making
a mor commodious Entrance, J^innet
apOlfs be sufft^ently accomm^
dated' without the resort to a ne*
tnerfJejS**""
'-$ fe
(%-x
The people of Aust% are making fles
perate%fforts' to secure the location St
th4 C^cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ranV
jroad shops, at that pljice- A delegation
went to Milwaukee yesterday to confer
with Manager Merrill. They were au
thorized to offer a cas$jk*onu of $25,000
and eight acres of ground. Minneapolis
is Austin's only competitor and does
not appear to be doing anything In the
matter.
The absorption of the Northwestern
Telegraph company by the Western
Union has been accomplished. The lines
in Wisconsin axe leas,e for ninety-nine
years and Other lines have been pur
chased outright. The general offices of
the Northwestern wlU be removed from
Milwaukee to St. Paul and Minneapolis,
where district offices will Jae estab
lished.
The Standard Oil' company, perhaps
the most grasping and soulless cor
poration in existence, owes the state
of Pennsylvania t$3,000,000
i^f^'W^^
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOTJRNAI* Sunday, May 13.
*s^er
I am doing,
I also cjaim to haye* rediscovered
the principle of Jhe mefhecL'bf coloring
employed by Titian,'- $ta& taught in
Venice and glanders eenturles. ago.
my method, any painter? tfan do four
times the amount of his rafetfent work,
in half the time." .t^^
His Eyes LJke ot$$or People's.
"Bu%-perhaps your'eyes have tbe^pe'
culiar gift df seeing valttti' in' the
dark,? "^suggested., *-r
"Not at all," answered the cellar
painter. "My eyes have beeif exa^nl
med by well-known specialists, and are
just the same as everyone else's. An y
one could.do as I am doing, but it
would t#ke
thre,e years',
training Af-
traordinarily easy it was to paint in
the dark. It saves fatigue to the eyes
by allowing them tp take in proportion^
and' the difficulties of composition fan
more easily than when painting in daf^
lijjht. I paint all my portraits in me
eighth the time usually allotted."
"But the sitters' themselves," I sug
gested. 'vKow do societal dames like
of taxes,
which it refuses to pay on the plea
that it is an Ohio corporation. Ohio
men and Ohio corporations seem to be
a good deal alike.
A lady writes the Evening Journal:
/One thihg which I think the ladies
have a right to ask is that gentlemen
In a horse car shall keep their feet on
the floor, instead of rubbing the mud
off them on dresses of the ladies that
pass in and out. S.
^London Truth says the street lamp
of the future will be suspended across
the street from an iron rod-attached to
the walls of opposite houses. There
are several electric lights so suspended,
.in^ew York.
i Mr. lowry is in Chicago and tells a
''reporter he intends to build a street
railway between Minneapolis and St.
Paul. This shows the truth of the old
adage that one has to go away from
home to get the newsi?* u?*'
United States," said that a long study
of the question had convinced him that
the country was running no end of a
risk by the. admission of so many thou
sands of foreigners under the existing
laws.
"In .view of certain observed evil
effects of immigration in the past,-*'
said/Mr. Hall, "further artificial se
lection is m&mfestly necessary to pre
serve our standard* and institutions
and, if possible, raise the average qual- i criminal.as the immigrants themselves.
Defective Page i
portraits of well-known society women
the dark, and they have all peen
qekghted with the work, as well as the
sittings. I might mention the names
of I4dy Lilian Boyd'and her, daugh
ter, "Lady Magdalen Williams-Bujtkley,
Mrs. Fritz-Ponsonby^wife of the private
secretary to thejfcng.^nd others. In
every case my Work has .resulted, in
other commissions, which, aftef all, are
the best tests of approval. I have 're-
cently spent the entire winter at^ va
rious country seats and castles in Ire
land, painting the dark portraits of
.the nobility.
"Not only ,has .the subdued light,
or the darkness, as you might call it,
a good effect on the Bitters, but it is'
aflso restful for the painter. I am able,
by this method, to get values at once
which, by ordinary daylight, would take
me hours to arrive at. I is a sort of
process of elimination. I begin by shut
ting out- the .lights then I let in -just
what I want,and, by letting in light
here and* excluding*it thereconstantly
working my window shutter back and
forte as T/ painte-I. get. .ius$ what* -I
^W^-pn^-eMflM* *Jfcfce time of other
artists. Such nfen as Sit- Alma Tadema,
Mpjrtin Menpes, P.* W^^riQi. and
other famous artist? 4i4v^e^mfned my 3
-work and. ail .have aJmittenVtJjiat.it isM
of .uncommon aualitv. Oef i.mir inn
uncommon quality
J.-L the"'world of art generally,! am-.meet-
ter that time, they would find hqw e^.ing with biCter opposition-*-Whicfi,v
lMf^
ism
said the voice. I have been assured secrets after years of diligent research
time and again that tney like to sit injafoig*scientific lines."
the' dark. Nothing *-pleases society
women more. After tine garish light
of noonday, after the,blaze of London
drawing Tooms and studios,- they come
here and say that the experience of
sitting in the dark is ah actual rest to
their nerves. I have^ painted many
/STfr
offlclaf Paper of the CTty.
O course i
how-
ever, is onjy manifeste-d by 'the -ftnallelj
^lv* \f^i^?'i
fc1
Si^
0
reau jreat artists are itHjBresJe3 compari
*t%&- and are waiting ^^lopafcmts,
AJ^ my^ portraits- a?e p^intedV on
black' can,vas, sueh as'JBemWdfldt ?e&*
ployed I only use^ threfe^ocJlsorsiinlai
my*^6rk,^i^ng the powder %htte
oiJUyas I jfeqnire the. 1 M^paints
..em are my 'owj
'WWltot but-t/iaye fofend tfi&t^h^ col- Lcation
-pii^ticafly-indestructible.^airtJ These
p ^m?atJo *&< ffir& thy improve* sol i
wftndj uILy, ifibat yoft could^riot i ell he
eoj^ from.-those, employed by the fa
^mous, old mastters."-I have learned these
'Began as an EnglneeT.
-4 -A.
"Wew you always interested in
art?" Mr. Raine was asked.
I began life as a civil engineer,"
he replied, "but ons
reaching the age
of 21 I .decided to give it up for art.
Locat "News" a Quarter of a Century Old
TALK OF THE TOWN
work was begun this
morning.
May 17, next Tuesday, an exciting
trotting race comes off at the fafr
grounds track 'between P. Sullivan's
well-known bsy mare and H. Seeley's
Starlight. The race will be the best
three in five," to harness, for $500
a side
The Minneapolis Vine team In the
Milwaukee contest, to occur on the 28th
inst. are: Dr. H. T. Elliot, captain
Mandlln, coacher Dr. C. M. Skin
ner, J. H. Hankinson, J. N. Hoblltt
and Ole Quam. Mr. Gibbs of Crystal
Lake was selected as reserve.
City Engineer Rinker has made his
report for the year. He states that
there are seventy^six miles of side
walks and that a halfxa million feet of
lumber will be needed this year for
new sidewalks.
The Evening Journal In endeavoring
to establish ittielf in^ St. Paul has been
quite successful in securing the services
of B. W. Clifford as solicitor of sub
scriptions and advertising. Mr. Clif
ford Is well known in the city and is a
successful canvasA^r.Tribune's St.
Paul personals.
T. Di Skiles, one of the most wealthy
and public-spirited of our citizens, in
company with his well-known and
highly respected neighbor, Dr. Llndley,'
is about to procure plans for the erec
tion of a superb business block on
Nicollet avenue, corner of Seventh
lty of iour race stock. The foreign-born
furnish more than twice the normal
portion of inmates of the penal, insane
and charitable institutions of the coun
try, and the alien population furnishes
nearly ten times its normal proportion.
Foreign whites are once and a half
as criminal as the .native whites of
native parents, and the children of
immigrants are three times as criminal
&s# the native element and twice
&
the latter works, were produced by
methods unknown today. BV* scientifi
cally studying the works of Ben^bfrandt
and Velasquez, I learned the seerets of
t^heir pigments, the basis of their prin
ciples and the methods of their appli-
Culled from The Journal of this Date, 1881
The Clark house is to have electric
bells.
At 2 30 tnis aftternoon the mercury
registered, 99 decrees' in the shade.
John DeLaittre signs all indictments
this year as foreman of the grand jury.
The extensions of the street railway,
amounting to five and a* half miles 'of
track, will he completed by June next.
"Henry C. Morse has purchased the
block occupied by the express compahy
on Hennepin avenue for $15 000.
Davison will issue 2,000 Minneapolis
directories this year_ one-half of which
iare to be distributed thru the state.
A petition Is being circulate!? for a
sidewalk along the Milwaukee railroad
tracks, below Washington avenue.
JUdge Young's charge to the grand
jury yesterday indicates that he means
war on the social evh.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
'Busheis of wheat were ground into flow
In Minneapolis last week and it wasn't
a very good week for flour, either
A great band festival will be held
Sunday under the direction of George
Selbert of St Paul at Union park.
Shelter will be furnished for 3/000, people
Superintendent Atwood purchased
fifty horses for the street railway while
in Chicago. They are exceptionafly
fine animals.
One ""hundred and forty-six dealers
have applied for licenses to sell liquor.
One hundred and seven have been?
issued.
A new station has been established
ort the Milwaukee & St. Paul short lin,
midway between St. Paur and Minne
apolis, to be called the "Minnesota
Transfer."
The Union stockyards, midway,, be
tween St. Paul and Minneapolis, just
opened a few days ago, is doing a good
business already with D. M. Roberts,
superintendent of yards, station agent
W. P. Burnett has been awarded the
contract for building the Johnson
Smith & Harrison block, to be erected
at First avenue S, corner of Third
street, and
famous painters studied the
same laws which I took up. A soon
as I discovered the principles on which
the old masters worked, I found I could
paint with ease. Anyone who adopted
my methods would find he would make
wonderful progress as compared to pres
ent methods, even in a year's time.
three colors are the three used by the
old masters, for you will find that they
employed*no more in all their works
and this accounts for their great har
mony. The colors I use give the paint
ings produce the look of ereat an-
that location his future home.
The bicycle club met last evening at
the Nicollet house and elected the fol
lowing officers: President, C. H. Hatfi
away secretary and treasurer, W. B.
Carpenter, captain, E 'H. Winshlp, sub
captain, Frederick Love. 'A meeting
Will be held Monday evening for prac
tice on Seventh street, between Hen
nepin and Nicollet avenues. The club
has-
twelve members.
ST. PAUL
The old toll House on the high bridge
is being torn down.
There was nothing doing yesterday in
the supreme court of special interest.
Pedestrians are beginning to seek the
other side of Third street. Heretofore
there has been btit one side, apparently.
Royal visitors are expected in St.
Paul some time in June The Marquis
of Lome and the Princess Louise are
coming by the way of Manitoba.
P. H. Kelly, the* wholesale grocer, has
been awarded1
JL
the contract to furnish
the government 1,200,000 pounds of
sugar at 10% cents a pound.
Mary Barnes is to have a new boiler
and other internal improvements. It
may be well to add, by the.way of ex
planation, that Mary Barnes Is a steam
boat.
Commodore Kittson arrived at home
yesterday afternoon after q, prolonged
absence In the east, making purchases
,of blooded horses, and departed again
today for New York
An electric lock has been put in at
the Merchants' hotel,, set in the center
of the counter, whose principal motive
power comes from Northfleld, forty
miles away.
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
George W. Cooley and family are lo
cated at the Dewdrop "cottage, Spring
Park, Minnetonka, for the season.
been appointed -dputy city assessors,
and P. M. Woodman is assessor's clerk.
Sam Hill and Al Krech expect to go
east for an extended pleasure trip soon.
Miss Lillian Tood, of the class of '80,
state university, has been appointed
assistant librarian of the Atheneum and
enters upon her duties Monday.
Today ends the first year of Jdhn T.
West's connection with the Nicollet
house.
The year has been a most
profitable one and under Mr-
1'jMmm.W OTWlflijitt'
SENSATION
TALK OF L1OND0N
a
I
JTJ5"JL XOBD IVEAGH,
'Who was One of theFirs to Patronize
Baine the Youn Artist..
aauis, mo xuunir anut S-^Bajn
I'had never leaa-ned toi draw, Jbu.t I'be
ga'n to stn'dy under Mr. Frith, and at
Tre studio S^r^l
El
l,a
weiia4 "*v comparing modern painting with, the, i-* A re much whether "fella
old masters, I became convinced thwe^^^W** ?aref
ih.. ._^ .____,._._ ^aya^B&HHev.'That doesn't signify, i*.f
|^f*eeiv 4ders from tbe best.peop le
3a *"fee $jijfe-~what more eould I ex-
street. Dr. Lindley owns the 88%
feet on the corner and Mr Skiles the
l\ext two lota With this end in view
Mr. Skiles last week purchased a lot
on Seventh street, opposite W. D.
Washburn's residence, paying $4,000
prefer, with the intention- of making 1 ^r^ile^roaS
West's
able management the house has taken
rank as one of the most popular hotels
In the northwest
An interesting event occurred at
Boston, Mass, Tuesday at Trinity
church when J. Giddings of the law
firm of Lane & Giddings, Minneapolis,
was united In marriage to Miss Anna
S. Burleigh of Boston. The Inde
structible knot was tted by Rev. Phillips
Brooks. Mi?, and Mrs. Giddings expect
to return about June 10? after a visit
to the sea shore. They go to house-^
keeping on Third avenue, near D. Mor
rison's residence. t/
-a.
&.!? Removal, t&i-
Grove & Rowe have removed thetr
wood'office from the city hall building
to The Journal building, and are on
the same floor with The Journal count
ing room.
In the juvenile offenders the whites
are three times as criminal as the
native whites of native parentage, and
the second .generation t^iree and a
half times as criminal.
"The most far-reaching evil of im
migration is its effect in diminishing
the native birth rate and in prevent
ing tho coming of the most desirable
immigrants."
Lrj. Ellis of the Norfolk & Western
railway, stirred up something of a
fife
^IHIWJI-WII -,i.
are painted is the puzzle of the sfe
diosw
'FT don^*t much whethero "fellow,tont
0
01
1
f
"#-*n
tiquity. my methods I an produce
a finished portrait in five hours, and
am able to turn out not less than 150
-finished paintings in a year."
I The paintings produced by th* cellar
artists have received very high praise
from sgn&K yery 'distinguished artists.
Of-Bainef4,B
portrait of an an old woman,
P.-3AJ. JFritlj. painte* of tho famous*
Derby, 2?aV' picture, recently .wrote:
"Tho 'fnetxu& showed almost .all tho
beef irt qualitiesit is full of "charac
ter. weildTwn really life-like.
Wffiuj Ojneof he foremost London art
critics declared: "The pictures are^
full of power and character, are wsell
***i A Art Pioneer.* t't 4'
Under sue h' circumstances. Hi Key*
.worth Baine.may truly be ealled one of
the art piqneers of the day. The youth
.fainJess' of "the painter is also a striking
-fe$tu$e. */f: is only in his thirty-sec-
ionoVxearf is-very boyish in appearance
and* yet has,/ all the assurance of the
_,pigne.gr/^fco ^has hit on one of fhe dts
covaries of tho century. Keywor th
does-not la ck confidence in hiin
he needs it in his
'bpaiBess. ,It ig a fearsome thing to
expose single-handed and alone the
judglfcent of nearly all the artists in the
2t-BeJif^e.Undoubtedly
methods
I
On asking permission to take a phote-
$r$W'of the cellar artist he informed
me^a^I might take him inst as he was
?"*-in his studio. I explained that I
had not yet trained my camera into
taking -photos the dark, tho I" might
do so in time. I was omew&at unfair
to^xpect this of a young and inexperi
enced- camera. After a little persua
sion, the darksome artist agreed to step
into the next room where, py dint of a
lo ng exposure, the accompanying photo
graph was obtained. I is the only one
he has ever had taken by daylight. I
shows also the work which has received
most praise from his fellow artists^
namely, the jjjd woman, who, by
the way, is a London sat seller.
Promising New Town that Hat Cap
tured a Mlnneapolltan.
S. H. Jumper will leave Monday foort
with the Hastings &
Dakota division of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad. Mr. Jump
er Is the pioneer business man of that
place, and he will open the first store
there, occupying a tent temporarily.
He predicts that Aberdeen will boast of
twenty business firms within three
months.
Within ten days the Hastings & Da
kota extension will reach a point thirty
six miles this aide. To get his stock of
goods there he will be compelled to
transport them 100 miles by team.
ABOUT TH STATE
The liquor license at Hastings has
been fixed at $100,
The total receipts for the opening of
the new opera-house at -Stillwater
was $2,008.
Salaries of teachers at Rochester
range from $30 to ?60 per month, and
the principal is offered $1,400 a year.
The Benson Times has bought the
Swift county bank block and will move
into it the 1st of August.
Fergus Falls had a tie in the council
on the election of a eity attorney, and
after balloting forty-eight times the
aldermen of two of the wards pulled
straws to decide who was the lucky
man.
DAKOTA DOTS
Richland county has voted bonds for
the erection of a courthouse.
Five to nine carloads of land hunters
land at Fargo dally.
The new ferry between Fargo and
Moorhead is running.
At Fargo the Northern Pacific haoTed
over 8,000,000 pounds of freight in
April, a large increase over the business
of the same season last year.
An hey Correction.
In Herman Westphal's card, which
Collins Hamer and Ole Byorum have I appeared in The Evening Journal of
April 28, the word "cooking" was used
instead of "cooling." The ice cut near
Bassett's creek is used only for cooling
purposes at the Nteollet house. Ice for
drinking and culinary uses was cut
abo\e the Plymouth avenue bridge. Mr.
Westphal's office is No. 19 Nicollet
House block, Hennepin avenue.
It is expected the St. Louis express
will arrive on time tomorrow.
AMUSEMENTS
ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Friday and Saturday and Saturday
Matinee, May IS and 14, the world
renowned, original
SALSBURY'S TROUBADOURS
in their laughable musical extr&ya
ganza, entitled
."THE BROOK."
Prices 50c, 75c and $1.00.
PENCE OPERAHOUSE *n,v*
Hennepin ave and Second sL
Miss Phosa McAllister,
Manager.._
Lessee and
TonightBehAt of Miss Am*ta Harris.
"MASKS AND FACES" __.
i and *'jL
"A ROUGH DIAMOND."
Popular Prices 25 and 50 cents.
storm when he insisted that the law
apamst bringing, in foreign labor und*r
contract should be repealed. we nt
e^en further and said that the Chines*
exclusion law was manifestly unfair.
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